1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (325+ words) Costa Rica’s public hospitals have treated nearly 10,000 gunshot emergencies since 2020, showing how the rise in armed violence is affecting far more people than homicide statistics alone reveal. Data from the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) show that 9,970 firearm-related emergencies…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (308+ words) I don’t want to hear about Tico Time. Where did that expression even originate? It has been around for at least the 35 years I have lived here. It was likely coined by some impatient gringo who first said it in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (314+ words) Employment in Costa Rica’s free-zone regime fell year over year in July for the first time in seven years, ending a long stretch of job growth in one of the most important economic industries. Free-zone companies employed 200,203 salaried workers in…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (327+ words) She has not been tried, and the accusations against her remain allegations to be established in court. The Deputy Prosecutor’s Office against Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture had asked the Limón penal court for a year of preventive detention. The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (604+ words) A Forbes travel feature about how a cup of coffee came to cost $60 spends most of its reporting not in a Brooklyn café or at a Panamanian auction, but on a dirt road in the hills southwest of San José,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (693+ words) Costa Rica’s Medical Tourists Are Trading Dental Chairs for Operating Room The Tico Times COSTA RICA'S LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER Costa Rica’s Medical Tourists Are Trading Dental Chairs for Operating Room The foreign patient arriving in Costa Rica for a…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (429+ words) Parque La Libertad Layoffs Prompt Community Protest in Costa Rica The Tico Times COSTA RICA'S LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER Parque La Libertad Layoffs Prompt Community Protest in Costa Rica Communities surrounding Parque La Libertad are preparing a peaceful musical protest…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (464+ words) The core problem is that Costa Rica’s literacy figure comes from self reported survey answers, not from any actual reading test. When a census worker or household survey interviewer asks someone whether they can read and write, the person answers…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (394+ words) Costa Rica’s public health system depends on a single machine at Hospital México to provide an important form of cancer treatment, leaving patients vulnerable if the equipment stops working, according to the internal auditors of the Costa Rican Social Security…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (502+ words) Two earthquakes shake Costa Rica’s Central Valley before dawn The Tico Times COSTA RICA'S LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER Two earthquakes shake Costa Rica’s Central Valley before dawn If you were jolted awake around 1:40 a.m. this morning you felt one…...